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SUMMARY:Gossip Etherealized: Mid-Victorian Sensation Fiction and the Logic of the Record
DESCRIPTION:Join the Department of English for this lecture by Sierra Eckert\, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Digital Humanities and a Perkins Fellow at the Humanities Council.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lecture-by-sierra-eckert/
LOCATION:100 Jones Hall
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SUMMARY:Fear of others: Some comments on the fear of witchcraft in traditional China
DESCRIPTION:This talk will introduce a book manuscript that deals with the fear of witchcraft and its presumed perpetrators in traditional China. In line with existing scholarship into similar fears elsewhere (most extensively studied for Western Europa)\, accusations of witchcraft are understood as the product of bad social relationships. At least two types of fear were particularly prominent. One was the fear that a person was possessed by another creature controlled by another human being. This fear can still be found in most local cultures (“minorities”) but has seemingly disappeared from most of the imperial core of traditional China from the 10th century onwards. The other was the fear that someone is making figurines or little images to harm someone\, usually the person (rarely someone’s animals or other resources in the Chinese case) making the accusation or someone close to her or him. This fear was connected to real practices of cursing\, obtaining sexual access\, and healing\, all of which used a representation of the person who was addressed in the ritual. For reasons of time\, the talk’s primary focus will be the fear of figurines. In both types of fears\, both male and female persons can be either the accused or the accuser.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/fear-of-others-some-comments-on-the-fear-of-witchcraft-in-traditional-china/
LOCATION:202 Jones Hall
ORGANIZER;CN="Chao-Hui Jenny Liu":MAILTO:chaoliu@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:What Moses Forgot: Memory Failures in Late Ancient Rabbinic Judaism
DESCRIPTION:The Program in Judaic Studies and Ronald O. Perelman Institute for Judaic Studies invite you to join us for the 2023 Biderman Lecture. This year’s public lecture will be given by Mira Balberg (University of California\, San Diego) titled “What Moses Forgot: Memory Failures in Late Ancient Rabbinic Judaism.” \n\nRegistration is required. Please use this form to register for this event.\nIn person attendance is open to Princeton University ID holders and members of the public. In accordance with campus guidelines\, visitors must either be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (including booster)\, have recently received a negative test\, or agree to wear a face mask whenever indoors.\nAbility to social distance may not be possible.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/what-moses-forgot-memory-failures-in-late-ancient-rabbinic-judaism/
LOCATION:A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building\, Washington Road\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mary Kay Bodnar":MAILTO:mbodnar@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Reading\, Scribbling\, Copying: Cy Twombly and the Modern Greek Poets
DESCRIPTION:[Twombly’s] worktables are covered with oil crayons; pencils; tubes of pigment … art books … and a book of modern Greek poems in translation\, turned to George Seferis’s “Three Secret Poems.” Several lines of one stanza have been altered by Twombly. … A section of the edited and spliced poem (with a few new words added by Twombly) is written on the canvas of Summer [Quattro Stagioni]\, in Twombly’s inimitable\, childish scrawl. \nVogue magazine\, 1994 \nIn Cy Twombly’s studio\, the painter faced the poet. Twombly filled his workspace in southern Italy with books on art and poetry\, including numerous translations of George Seferis and C.P. Cavafy. Here\, Twombly explored fertile intersections between his visual art and the poetry of Seferis and Cavafy\, which the artist repeatedly used in pictorial and sculptural work in the early 1990s. These texts trace the painter’s “active” reading and treatment of poetic verse\, which he transforms into pictorial motifs by transferring words to canvas. Through the study of Twombly’s reading of Seferis’ and Cavafy’s poetry\, this paper examines the text-image and painting-poetry dialogue throughout the creative process of an influential artist from the New York school.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/reading-scribbling-copying-cy-twombly-and-the-modern-greek-poets/
LOCATION:103 Scheide Caldwell
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eleni Banis":MAILTO:hbanis@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230322T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230322T190000
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SUMMARY:War and Machine
DESCRIPTION:In 1914\, when Henri Bergson addressed the outbreak of the First World War\, he claimed that Germany’s turn towards industrialism and mechanism was accountable for the war\, because instead of “spiritualization of matter\,” it produced a “mechanization of spirit.” Later in The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932)\, Bergson further stated that wars of the modern time are bound up with industrial characters of the civilization. Bergson’s analysis has little to do with modern military machines\, but rather it concerns the relation between human and technology\, or in other words\, war is the result of the “conflict of organs.” In 1948\, Norbert Wiener in his Cybernetics\, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine responded to Bergson by claiming that the opposition between mechanism and vitalism belongs to a badly posed question because it is now overcome by cybernetics. How then shall we read Bergson’s critique today? \nYuk Hui wrote his doctoral thesis under the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler (1952-2020) at Goldsmiths College in London and obtained his Habilitation in philosophy from Leuphana University in Germany. Hui is author of several monographs that have been translated into a dozen languages\, including On the Existence of Digital Objects (2016)\, The Question Concerning Technology in China:-An Essay in Cosmotechnics (2016)\, Recursivity and Contingency ( 2019)\, and Art and Cosmotechnics (2021). Hui is co-editor of 30 Years after Les Immatériaux: Art\, Science and Theory (2015) and editor of Philosophy after Automation (Philosophy Today\, Vol.65. No.2\, 2021)\, among others. Since 2014\, Hui has been the initiator and convenor of the Research Network for Philosophy and Technology and sits as a juror of the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture since 2020. He is currently a professor of philosophy of technology and media at the City University of Hong Kong. \nCo-sponsored by the Humanities Council\, the German Department\, the Department of Philosophy and the Department of East Asian Studies
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/war-and-machine/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Florian Endres":MAILTO:fendres@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Hitch: An Iranian Story
DESCRIPTION:The Mossavar-Rahmani Center invites you to: \nA Film Screening\nHitch: An Iranian Story\nA film by Chowra Makaremi. A film screening & conversation on mourning and melancholia after the 1979 Iranian Revolution with Chowra Makaremi\, Professor Shahla Talebi (Arizona State University) and Mossavar-Rahmani Center Associate Research Scholar\, Milad Odabaei
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/hitch-an-iranian-story/
LOCATION:006 Friend Center\, 006 Friend Center\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Femke de Ruyter":MAILTO:femked@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Investigating Injustice with Data
DESCRIPTION:The digital age has transformed investigative journalism. For virtually every coverage beat\, proof of wrongdoing and injustice is hidden in opaque databases. Meanwhile\, readers no longer consume news in print and have developed an unprecedented skepticism for mainstream journalism. Reporter and former software developer Neil Bedi will share his experiences navigating this new landscape by combining old school reporting skills with nontraditional technology-driven techniques. \nBedi\, a visiting Ferris Professor of Journalism in the Program in Journalism\, is a reporter at ProPublica investigating federal government agencies and policies in Washington\, D.C. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in 2021 as an investigative reporter at the Tampa Bay Times\, after coming to journalism from a job developing software on Wall Street. Discussant Meredith Martin is an Associate Professor of English and the Director of the Digital Humanities Center. \nThe Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism invites faculty\, graduate students and staff to participate in the next in our series of events where distinguished visiting journalists discuss their work and pressing issues of the day with faculty from a variety of disciplines. These lunchtime talks offer intimate looks inside the work of colleagues and an opportunity for dialogue across specialties. \nAttendance by reservation only. Space is limited; RSVP to Margo Bresnen at mbresnen@princeton.edu\, noting your University affiliation. \nEmail Margo Bresnen\, Journalism Program Manager\, at mbresnen@princeton.edu with any questions or difficulties.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/neil-bedi/
LOCATION:16 Joseph Henry House
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230323T140000
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SUMMARY:Sites of Memory: A Symposium on Toni Morrison and the Archive
DESCRIPTION:Sites of Memory: A Symposium on Toni Morrison and the Archive brings together scholars\, artists\, writers\, and activists to celebrate\, interrogate\, and reflect upon the archive in relation to Toni Morrison’s writing\, her teaching\, and her public intellectual work. The event is part of a year of programming surrounding the Spring 2023 exhibition Toni Morrison: Sites of Memory. While Morrison’s literary output is well known\, this symposium breaks new ground by inviting attendees to think with her archive\, the Toni Morrison Papers\, about less recognized aspects of her art: her composition practices\, her unpublished writings\, and her daily life as a teacher at Princeton. In presentations\, conversations\, and performances\, participants and attendees will think capaciously about the archive\, taking it up as performance\, as idea\, and as something that gets articulated in published and un-published work. Across three days\, we will explore the scope of Morrison’s archive\, its central place in Princeton’s history and intellectual life\, and its status as an entry point for reconsidering Morrison’s creative work and the way it continues to shape art\, writing\, and performance. \nTaking inspiration from Morrison’s investment in collaboration and innovative programming\, the symposium’s schedule includes: a keynote lecture; a plenary conversation; five roundtables curated by Morrison scholars; commissioned performances by artists Mame Diarra Spies and Daniel Alexander Jones at The McCarter Theatre;  and additional campus programming. Across these events\, the symposium emphasizes how the Morrison Papers is very much a living archive–a site of collaboration\, innovation\, and experimentation. Speakers include: Edwidge Danticat (Author)\, Allison Saar (Sculptor & Independent Artist)\, Evie Shockley (Rutgers University & Poet)\, Riley Snorton (University of Chicago)\, Dana A. Williams (Howard University)\, Stephen Best (University of California\, Berkeley)\, Sarah Jane Cervenak (University of North Carolina\, Greensboro)\, Angie Cruz (University of Pittsburgh)\,\n \nThe symposium\, a Humanities Council Magic Project\, will convene on Thursday\, March 23 at 5pm and will close on Saturday evening\, March 25th. Our opening keynote on Thursday afternoon features Edwidge Danticat followed by an opening reception. Saturday afternoon’s closing plenary features  Evie Schokley and Alison Saar and will be followed by a closing reception.   \nYou can find the full program here.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/sites-of-memory-a-symposium-on-toni-morrison-and-the-archive/
LOCATION:Lewis Arts complex
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SUMMARY:On the Edge of the World: Rome’s Fluid Frontier in Northern Britain
DESCRIPTION:Britain was the last region in Western Europe conquered by the Roman Empire. However\, its occupation was never completed: despite several campaigns by Roman armies\, most of the northern territories remained free of direct Roman rule. Over several generations\, the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire moved back and forth between modern-day northern England and southern Scotland\, creating a fluid borderland of encounters and resistance. This lecture will provide an overview on the interactions between Roman power and indigenous communities\, presenting some results from new research projects that are fundamentally transforming our knowledge of the period between c. AD 70-400. Moreover\, it will reflect on what the evidence from a rather peripheral region of the ancient world can contribute to wider debates on borderlands and the limits of empires\, past and present. \nManuel Fernández-Götz is Abercromby Professor of Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. His main research interests are Iron Age and Roman societies in Europe\, the archaeology of identities\, and conflict archaeology. He has authored over 200 publications and directed fieldwork projects in Spain\, Germany\, the United Kingdom\, and Croatia. His research has been recognized with the award of the Philip Leverhulme Prize and the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Thomas Reid Medal. He is currently directing the Leverhulme- funded project ‘Beyond Walls: Reassessing Iron Age and Roman Encounters in Northern Britain’.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/on-the-edge-of-the-world-romes-fluid-frontier-in-northern-britain/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne
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SUMMARY:Venetian Air and the Avatars of Disegno in Sixteenth-Century Art Theory
DESCRIPTION:When praising cities in the early modern era it was typical to comment upon the advantages of their particular siting\, especially when it resulted in mild temperatures and good air quality. This presentation examines ways in which early modern art theorists\, Giorgio Vasari in particular\, used these environmental tropes to support their outlook on Venetian art\, bolstering their broader critical frameworks. \nLorenzo Buonanno is Assistant Professor in the Art and Art History Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He specializes in the art of early modern Venice. His studies on Venetian sculpture have appeared in volumes such as Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari. Immagini di devozione\, spazi della fede\, edited by Carlo Corsato and Deborah Howard\, and The Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy\, edited by Amy Bloch and Daniel Zolli\, and his first book\, The Performance of Sculpture in Renaissance Venice\, was published in March 2022.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/venetian-air-and-the-avatars-of-disegno-in-sixteenth-century-art-theory/
LOCATION:Green Hall 0-S-9
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SUMMARY:LLL Presents: Poverty\, by America
DESCRIPTION:In his new book\, Matthew Desmond reimagines the debate on poverty\, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. He is joined in conversation by fellow scholar about housing and poverty in America\, author\, and activist Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor. Andrea Elliott\, who won the Pulitzer Prize for her book Invisible Child\, will introduce the speakers. \nThis event is free but ticketed. Please visit the Labyrinth Books website for more details. \nMatthew Desmond is professor of sociology at Princeton University. He is the author of four books\, including Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City\, and is the principal investigator of The Eviction Lab at Princeton. Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor’s Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. She is the author\, in addition\, of From #Blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation. Yamahtta-Taylor is contributing writer at The New Yorker and professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University. Andrea Elliott is investigative reporter for The New York Times and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner\, once for feature writing\, and once for her book Invisible Child: Poverty\, Survival\, and Hope in an American City. \nThis event is co-presented by Labyrinth Books and The Princeton Public Library and cosponsored by Princeton University’s Humanities Council\, School for Public and International Affairs\, Sociology Department\, African American Studies Department\, Anthropology Department\, Economics Department\, and the Kahneman Treisman Center for Behavioral Science & Public Policy at Princeton. 
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lll-presents-poverty-by-america/
LOCATION:Nassau Presbyterian Church\, Nassau Presbyterian Church\, 61 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion | Carlo Ginzburg: History/Microhistories/Architectural Histories
DESCRIPTION:On March 6\, 2022\, Yehuda Safran (Pratt Institute) and Daniel Sherer (Princeton SoA) interviewed Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg for Issue 5 of Potlatch journal\, perhaps the most extensive and in-depth exchange ever given. From a broad spectrum of subjects\, Ginzburg discusses key sources of his intellectual formation\, the complex relation of art history\, architectural history\, and microhistory–convergences and divergences between historical\, literary and cinematic narrative\, and the reading of diverse types of evidence across disciplines. In an unusual moment of synthesis\, the interview contains the only published discussion of Ginzburg’s intellectual and personal exchange with architectural theorist Manfredo Tafuri\, focusing on the concepts of polycentric histories of architecture and microhistory. Nearly a year after the interview\, Carlo Ginzburg: History/Microhistories/Architectural Histories brings together multiple scholars across disciplinary fields to discuss this seminal dialog and Ginzburg at large. \nParticipants include Daniel Sherer (Visiting Faculty\, History and Theory of Architecture\, School of Architecture\, Princeton University)\, Yehuda Safran (Critic; Adjunct Professor\, History and Theory of Architecture\, School of Architecture\, Pratt Institute)\, Eva Del Soldato (Associate Professor of Italian Studies\, Francophone\, Italian And Germanic Studies\, University of Pennsylvania)\, Francesca Trivellato (Andrew W. Mellon Professor\, School of Historical Studies\, Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton University)\, and Spyros Papapetros (Associate Professor\, History and Theory of Architecture\, School of Architecture\, Princeton University). \nThis lecture is made possible by the Jean Labatut Memorial Lectures in Architecture and Urban Planning Fund and is co-sponsored by the Center for Collaborative History.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/book-discussion-carlo-ginzburg-history-microhistories-architectural-histories/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium
ORGANIZER;CN="Carrie Ruddick":MAILTO:cruddick@princeton.edu
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T180000
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SUMMARY:Musicology Colloquium Series: Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-Sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Panayotis League will discuss his recently-published monograph\, which explores the legacy of the Great Catastrophe—the death and expulsion from Turkey of 1.5 million Greek Christians following the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922—through the music and dance practices of Greek refugees and their descendants over the last one hundred years. The book draws extensively on original ethnographic research conducted in Greece (on the island of Lesvos in particular) and in the Greater Boston area\, as well as on the author’s lifetime immersion in the North American Greek diaspora. Through analysis of handwritten music manuscripts\, homemade audio recordings\, and contemporary live performances\, the presentation traces the routes of repertoire and style over generations and back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean\, investigating the ways that the particular musical traditions of the Anatolian Greek community have contributed to their understanding of their place in the global Greek diaspora and the wider post-Ottoman world. \nThis event is free\, un-ticketed.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/musicology-colloquium-series-echoes-of-the-great-catastrophe-re-sounding-anatolian-greekness-in-diaspora/
LOCATION:102 Woolworth\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Simeon W Brown":MAILTO:swbrown@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:North-East Milton Seminar: "Milton and Monism\, Yet Once More"
DESCRIPTION:The North-East Milton Seminar’s 2023 keynote lecture\, “Milton and Monism\, Yet Once More” will be presented by Stephen M. Fallon\, John J. Cavanaugh Professor of the Humanities\, Notre Dame University. This year’s seminar is scheduled for Friday\, March 24\, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. in East Pyne 010.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/north-east-milton-seminar-milton-and-monism-yet-once-more/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T210000
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SUMMARY:Atelier@Large: Conversations on Art-making in a Vexed Era
DESCRIPTION:In a series of conversations that bring guest artists to campus to discuss what they face in making art in the modern world\, director of the Princeton Atelier and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon moderates a discussion with Broadway actor and mime Bill Bowers\, graphic novelist and cartoonist for The New Yorker E.S. Glenn\, and poet and playwright Claudia Rankine. \nAdmission: Free and open to the public\, however tickets are required through University Ticketing at tickets.princeton.edu. All visitors to Princeton University are expected to be either fully vaccinated\, have recently received and be prepared to show proof of a negative COVID test (via PCR within 72 hours or via rapid antigen within 8 hours of the scheduled visit)\, or agree to wear a face covering when indoors and around others. \nAccessibility: The Stewart Theater is an accessible venue. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at least one week in advance at LewisCenter@princeton.edu
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/atelierlarge-conversations-on-art-making-in-a-vexed-era-2/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Steve Runk":MAILTO:LewisCenter@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Art and Devotion - New Accounts of Religious Culture\, Race\, and Gender in the United States
DESCRIPTION:– Registration is Required – \nThis symposium is the second installment of the Princeton Graduate Book Forum. \nA Symposium on Lift Every Voice and Swing: Black Musicians and Religious Culture in the Jazz Century\, by Vaughn A. Booker and Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg Brooklyn\, by Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada \nSaturday March 25\, 2023 – Lewis Library 120 \n8:30-9:30 Continental Breakfast and Registration \n9:30-9:45 Opening Remarks: Wallace Best\, Princeton University \n9:45-11:45 First Panel: “Lifeblood of the Parish” – Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada \nEziaku Atuama Nwokocha\, University of Miami \nErica Robles-Anderson\, New York University \nKatherine Dugan\, Springfield College \nChair: William Stell\, Princeton University \n12:00-1:30 Lunch Break \n1:30-3:30 Second Panel: “Life Every Voice and Swing” – Vaughn Booker \nTracy Fessenden\, Arizona State University \nLerone A. Martin\, Stanford University \nRichard Brent Tuner\, University of Iowa \nChair: Mélena Laudig\, Princeton University \n3:30-4:15 Break \n4:15-4:45 Symposium Summary – Jonathan Lee Walton\, Princeton Theological Seminary \n4:45-6:00 Closing Reception \n\n\n\nSponsors\n\nDepartment of Religion\nHumanities Council\nDepartment of African American Studies\nCenter for Culture\, Society and Religion\nUniversity Center for Human Values\nProgram in Gender and Sexuality Studies\nDepartment of Music
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/art-and-devotion-new-accounts-of-religious-culture-race-and-gender-in-the-united-states/
LOCATION:120 Lewis Library\, 120 Lewis Library\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Liliana Cavani’s Life and Films
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Department of French and Italian and The Italian Cultural Institute\, New York.\nIn association with the Humanities Council\, the Department of Comparative Literature\, Committee for Film Studies and PIRELLI in Milan: \nMarch 27\, 2023\, 7:30 pm – East Pyne 010\nFilm Screening of Francesco (1989) \nMarch 28\, 2023\, 7:00 pm – The Princeton Garden Theatre\nFilm Screening of The Night Porter (1974)\n*Followed by a conversation with the filmmaker\n*Free Admission with PU ID \nMarch 31\, 2023\, 4:00 pm – Italian Cultural Institute\, New York\nRound table discussion with Liliana Cavani on the “Francesco Trilogy”\nIntroduction by Massimo Sarti\, Attaché for Cultural Affairs\nLiliana Cavani in conversation with Fabio Finotti\, Director IIC\nMaria DiBattista\, Flavia Laviosa\, Millicent Marcus\, Gaetana Marrone-Puglia
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/celebrating-liliana-cavanis-life-and-films/
LOCATION:Various\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kelly Eggers":MAILTO:keggers@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T130000
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SUMMARY:"Asiiskusiipuw" Munsee Language Revitalization
DESCRIPTION:Join Ian McCallum\, graduate student at the University of Toronto\, officer in the Indigenous Education Office for the Ontario Ministry of Education\, and member of the Munsee-Delaware First Nation for a virtual lecture about the river that is important to the history of the Munsee people: “Asiiskusiipuw\,” “Muddy River\,” or “Thames River.” \nIn the summer of 2021\, a group of Munsee-Delaware community members and academics paddled the Thames river\, starting from downtown London to the Munsee Delaware Nation. The purpose of the trip was to document Munsee history\, language and culture. The group documented plant\, bird\, animal and insect species to support language revitalization. The trip gave insight into the seasonal practices of the Munsee people and the importance of the location of settlement. Community members also related details about the original settlements\, corn fields\, the War of 1812\, and the importance of the Munsee community as a center in Upper Canada. \nRegister via Zoom.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/asiiskusiipuw-munsee-language-revitalization/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Yolanda Sullivan":MAILTO:syolanda@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T133000
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SUMMARY:Feral Atlas: Toward a Collaborative Environmental Humanities
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lunchtime conversation on Feral Atlas: The More-than Human Anthropocene\, participatory projects\, and the Environmental Humanities.\nFeral Atlas invites you to explore the ecological worlds created when nonhuman entities become tangled up with human infrastructure projects. Seventy-nine field reports from scientists\, humanists\, and artists show you how to recognize “feral” ecologies\, that is\, ecologies that have been encouraged by human-built infrastructures\, but which have developed and spread beyond human control. These infrastructural effects\, Feral Atlas argues\, are the Anthropocene. \nA speaker series co-sponsored by: The English Department’s Contemporary Poetry Colloquium\, the High Meadows Environmental Institute\, the Environmental Media Lab\, the Bain-Swiggett Poetry Fund\, the Effron Center for the Study of America\, the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities\, and the University Center for Human Values.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/feral-atlas-toward-a-collaborative-environmental-humanities/
LOCATION:Hinds Library\, McCosh\, Hinds Library\, McCosh\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kyra Morris":MAILTO:kyram@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T180000
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SUMMARY:Religion\, the Secular\, and Machines in Between
DESCRIPTION:John Lardas Modern is Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of the Humanities and Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College. He will be in conversation with CCSR Postdoctoral Fellow Suzanne van Geuns. His most recent book asks how the brain has become the locus of who we are. It takes us from Jonathan Edwards’s imprint on cognitive science to electrical shocks being administered in the making of both a heterosexual mind and the “normal” religious person.\nModern is the author of The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac\, Ginsberg\, and Burroughs (2001)\, Secularism in Antebellum America (2011)\, and most recently\, Neuromatic; or\, a Particular History of Religion and the Brain (2021)\, winner of the International Society for Science and Religion’s 2022 Best Book Award. Modern is also the Principal Investigator for Machines in Between (2021-23)\, a multi-media project funded by the Henry Luce Foundation and the Center for Sustained Engagement with Lancaster. Machines in Between is an audio-visual experiment that reimagines our present state of technological saturation. It is part mixtape\, surreal performance\, and philosophical experiment\, asking “What do we love when we love our machines?”\nThis event is part of the Religion and the Public Conversation series. The theme for the 2022-2023 year is “Religion and Technology: From Codex to Coding.”\nThis conversation will be livestreamed. Please register to attend the live webinar.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/religion-the-secular-and-machines-in-between/
LOCATION:Green Hall 0-S-6\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jenny Legath":MAILTO:jlegath@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T183000
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SUMMARY:Reading by Ina Cariño
DESCRIPTION:Ina Cariño\, a Whiting Award-winning poet and author of Feast (Alice James Books\, 2023)\, reads from their work along with several creative writing seniors. The C.K. Williams Reading Series showcases senior thesis students of the Program in Creative Writing with established writers as special guests. \nAdmission: Free and open to the public. All visitors to Princeton University are expected to be either fully vaccinated\, have recently received and be prepared to show proof of a negative COVID test (via PCR within 72 hours or via rapid antigen within 8 hours of the scheduled visit)\, or agree to wear a face covering when indoors and around others. \nAccessibility: The Drapkin Studio is an accessible venue. An assistive listening system is available. Guests in need of other access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at least one week in advance at lewiscenter@princeton.edu
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/reading-by-ina-carino/
LOCATION:Drapkin Studio at Lewis Arts complex\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Steve Runk":MAILTO:LewisCenter@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230328T043000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230328T180000
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SUMMARY:Winckelmann’s Epistolary Art
DESCRIPTION:Over the two and half centuries since he met his violent end in Trieste\, the correspondence of Johann Joachim Winckelmann\, the traditional ‘founder’ of classical archaeology\, has grown as important to the formation of his legend as his published writings on art. His letters\, and the life story to which they promise access\, were crucial to his canonisation as a figure of emulation for students of classics in Germany; they also played a central role in the quest for ‘Uranian’ ancestors among activists in the burgeoning European homosexual emancipation movement of the 1890s. In this talk I will respectfully interrogate these traditions\, seeking to do justice to their importance while also criticising the ways in which they have establish a sharp (and anachronistic) divide between ‘private’ and ‘public’ categories of Winckelmann’s literary production. Turning to the educational contexts of Winckelmann’s childhood and youth and the rich evidence his manuscripts provide of his reading in Latin and vernacular authors\, I shall argue that Winckelmann practised an epistolary art grounded in classical and early modern epistolary convention. Viewed in this perspective\, his letters construct a set of queerly desiring personae more varied and interesting than traditional readings have revealed.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/winckelmanns-epistolary-art/
LOCATION:East Pyne 010 and Zoom\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eileen Robinson":MAILTO:eileenrobinson@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230328T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230328T180000
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SUMMARY:Aimer en français: exil\, identité(s)\, écriture (in French)
DESCRIPTION:Kim Thúy will present the lecture Aimer en français: exil\, identité(s)\, écriture (in French)\, followed by a reception. Registration required. \nThese events were made possible thanks to the generous support of: The 250th Anniversary Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education\, The Délégation Générale du Québec à New York\, The Department of French and Italian\, Canadian Studies\, The Humanities Council\, The Lewis Center for the Arts\, The Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie\, The Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES) \, The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/aimer-en-francais-exil-identites-ecriture-in-french/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall
ORGANIZER;CN="Kelly Eggers":MAILTO:keggers@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230328T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230328T183000
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SUMMARY:"Nightmare Landscapes\, Ambient Splendor\, and the End(s) of Art"
DESCRIPTION:Neferti X. M. Tadiar\n“Nightmare Landscapes\, Ambient Splendor\, and the End(s) of Art”\n[Response: Paul Nadal]\nTuesday\, March 28\, 2023 @5pm ET\nN107 (School of Architecture) \nIn this talk\, Neferti Tadiar shares readings of contemporary Philippine art in the context of catastrophe from her book Remaindered Life. She reads the work of Kiri Dalena\, Lyra Garcellano\, and others in intricate\, expressive relation to the nightmare landscapes proffered by a global fantasy of city everywhere\, an uber-urban world built on unimpeded value-productive movement\, connection\, and circulation\, which demands and depends on relentless violent life-expenditures through war. Dwelling on these works’ affective sensibility of the life of the dispossessed imprinted within these very landscapes\, their rendering of the ambient splendor of remaindered life\, Tadiar asks what in this context might be the end(s) of art. \nNeferti X. M. Tadiar is Professor of Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College\, Columbia University. She is the author of Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization; Fantasy-Production: Sexual Economies and Other Philippine Consequences for the New World Order; and most recently\, Remaindered Life. \nPaul Nadal is Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at Princeton University. An interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of literature and economy\, he is completing a book on novels and remittances in the Philippine diaspora\, a chapter of which appeared in American Quarterly and won the Best Essay Prize from the American Literature Society.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/nightmare-landscapes-ambient-splendor-and-the-ends-of-art/
LOCATION:Room N107\, School of Architecture\, Room N107\, School of Architecture\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Iason Stathatos":MAILTO:iasons@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Toni Morrison Lectures | Dear Toni: Morrison Edits a Generation of Black Men
DESCRIPTION:Held over three days March 28 – March 30th\, the Toni Morrison Lectures are held bi-annually and spotlight the new and exciting work of scholars and writers who have risen to positions of prominence both in academe and in the broader world of letters. \nThe lectures are published to celebrate the expansive literary imagination\, intellectual adventurousness and political insightfulness that characterize the writing of Toni Morrison. Morrison taught creative writing at Princeton for many years. In 2014 she donated a major portion of her papers to the Princeton University Library. As of spring of 2016\, the papers are available for all scholars to visit and study. \nFarah Jasmine Griffin is the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African American Studies at Columbia University\, where she also served as the inaugural Chair of the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department. Professor Griffin received her B.A. in History & Literature from Harvard and her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale. She is the author or editor of eight books including Who Set You Flowin?: The African American Migration Narrative (Oxford\, 1995)\, If You Can’t Be Free\, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday (Free Press\, 2001)\, and Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II (Basic Books\, 2013). \nGriffin collaborated with composer\, pianist\, Geri Allen and director\, actor S. Epatha Merkerson on two theatrical projects\, for which she wrote the book: The first\, “Geri Allen and Friends Celebrate the Great Jazz Women of the Apollo\,” with Lizz Wright\, Dianne Reeves\, Teri Lyne Carrington and others\, premiered on the main stage of the Apollo Theater in May of 2013. The second\, “A  Conversation with Mary Lou” featuring vocalist Carmen Lundy\, premiered at Harlem Stage in March 2014 and was performed at The John F. Kennedy Center in May of 2016. Her most recent book\, Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature was published by W.W. Norton in September 2021. Griffin is a 2021-22 Guggenheim Fellow and Mellon Foundation Fellow in Residence.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/toni-morrison-lectures-dear-toni-morrison-edits-a-generation-of-black-men/
LOCATION:10 McCosh
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230328T210000
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SUMMARY:Reading by Emma Cline & A. Van Jordan
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning poet A. Van Jordan\, author of five poetry collections including M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A and the forthcoming When I Waked\, I Cried to Dream Again (W.W. Norton\, 2023)\, and novelist Emma Cline\, author of The Girls and the forthcoming book The Guest (May 2023)\, read from their work as part of the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series. \nAdmission: Free and open to the public. All visitors to Princeton University are expected to be either fully vaccinated\, have recently received and be prepared to show proof of a negative COVID test (via PCR within 72 hours or via rapid antigen within 8 hours of the scheduled visit)\, or agree to wear a face covering when indoors and around others. \nAccessibility: The Stewart Theater is an accessible venue. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at least one week in advance at lewiscenter@princeton.edu
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/reading-by-emma-cline-a-van-jordan/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Steve Runk":MAILTO:LewisCenter@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T132000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Faculty Colloquium | Making Things Up: Improvisation in the Illustrated 'Cantigas de Santa María'
DESCRIPTION:The Program in Medieval Studies is pleased to offer the Faculty Colloquium series for Spring 2023. Pamela Patton (Art and Archaeology) will present this lunchtime talk on Wednesday\, March 29. \nPatton’s project-in-progress examines artistic improvisation in the two illustrated Cantigas de Santa María manuscripts now in the Escorial (RBME\, MS T-I-1) and Florence (Bib. Naz. MS b.r. 20). The creativity of these visual narratives\, made to accompany the text and music of the Cantigas when they were set down in a pair of deluxe codices around 1280 at the Sevillian court of their patron\, King Alfonso X of Castile\, has been widely recognized. Yet the degree to which the illustrations diverge from their companion texts—embroidering\, revising\, even subverting the details of the written/sung narratives—suggests an autonomy and even haphazardness that stands at odds with the modern vision of a well-ordered royal scriptorium. Patton’s project postulates that the rampant improvisations of the Cantigas illustrations reflect both the freedom enjoyed and the pressure endured by an atelier struggling to satisfy a prolific royal patron under challenging conditions. \nPlease RSVP for this event here.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/medieval-faculty-colloquium-making-things-up-improvisation-in-the-illustrated-cantigas-de-santa-maria/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T132000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk "The Face of Peace: Government Pedagogy amid Disinformation in Colombia"
DESCRIPTION:Colombia’s 2016 peace agreement with the FARC guerrillas sought to end fifty years of war and won President Juan Manuel Santos the Nobel Peace Prize. Yet Colombian society rejected it in a polarizing referendum\, amid an emotive disinformation campaign. Gwen Burnyeat joined the Office of the High Commissioner for Peace\, the government institution responsible for peace negotiations\, to observe and participate in an innovative “peace pedagogy” strategy to explain the agreement to Colombian society. Burnyeat’s multi-scale ethnography reveals the challenges government officials experienced communicating with skeptical audiences and translating the peace process for public opinion. She argues that the fatal flaw in the peace process lay in government-society relations\, enmeshed in culturally liberal logics and shaped by the politics of international donors. The Face of Peace offers the Colombian case as a mirror to the global crisis of liberalism\, shattering the fantasy of rationality that haunts liberal responses to “post-truth” politics. \nABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKER \nGwen Burnyeat is a Junior Research Fellow in Anthropology\, Merton College\, University of Oxford. She is also a winner of the 2023 Public Anthropologist Award. \nDISCUSSANT \nCatalina Muñoz\, History\, Universidad de los Andes\, Colombia; PLAS Visiting Research Scholar \nOpen to students\, faculty\, visiting scholars\, staff and specially invited guests. A boxed lunch will be provided while supplies last.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/book-talk-the-face-of-peace-government-pedagogy-amid-disinformation-in-colombia/
LOCATION:216 Aaron Burr Hall\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Damaris Zayas":MAILTO:damaris@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T180000
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SUMMARY:Towards a New Understanding of the Late Imperial Corpora or How to Read An Anatomy of Lenses (Jingshi 鏡史)\, 1681
DESCRIPTION:A talk from Tina Lu\, Yale University. \nABSTRACT: \nAlthough it is mentioned in other seventeenth-century texts and strongly associated with Sun Yunqiu (~1630-1662)\, Jingshi (compiled sometime after 1681) was only rediscovered in 2015 as one of a handful of seventeenth-century Chinese texts that allude to a Chinese-made telescope. In both halves of my project—what Jingshi isn’t and what Jingshi is—I pose the same question: what did “Sun Yunqiu” do? A version of his life that originates from the Gazetteer of Tiger Hill (Hufu zhi 虎阜志) has become commonplace: he was an inventor\, and that he “spurred all the workshops of the city to fabricate glasses according to his methods and that they then spread everywhere.” I trace his contributions in both the lens-making workshop and in the book-making one. Both of these were collective ventures\, depending on multiple forms of expertise. In my presentation at Princeton\, I will be focusing on the second half: how a close look at Jingshi can show us what being an editor meant\, an understanding of books not just as political relics but as political organisms\, and the place of carvers in bookmaking.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/towards-a-new-understanding-of-the-late-imperial-corpora-or-how-to-read-an-anatomy-of-lenses-jingshi-%e9%8f%a1%e5%8f%b2-1681/
LOCATION:202 Jones Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chao-Hui Jenny Liu":MAILTO:chaoliu@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:The Background Fantastic: Ambient Fantasy from YouTube to the Metaverse
DESCRIPTION:Join the Committee for Film Studies for the first lecture in our spring 2023 series that brings prominent film scholars into conversation with members of the Princeton community. This event features Paul Roquet\, associate professor of media studies and Japan studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. \nTalk title\n“The Background Fantastic: Ambient Fantasy from YouTube to the Metaverse” \nAbstract\nWhat happens when the heightened emotional environments of fantasy fiction and role-playing games are recruited as backdrops for the completion of everyday tasks? This talk examines the prominent role of fantasy settings in the spread of YouTube ‘ambience’ and ‘study with me’ videos\, as well as the fantasy backdrops so central to life in social VR. Situating ambient fantasy within the broader turn to magical thinking in twenty-first century American and Japanese popular culture\, I consider what it means to recruit the fantastic as an atmospheric resource for everyday mood regulation\, and what happens when these ambient horizons are enclosed within the algorithmic logic of commercial media platforms.​ \nPaul Roquet is associate professor of media studies and Japan studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Ambient Media: Japanese Atmospheres of Self (Minnesota\, 2016) and The Immersive Enclosure: Virtual Reality in Japan (Columbia\, 2022). \nThis event is free and open to the public. \nThe spring 2023 lecture series is sponsored by the Humanities Council’s Committee for Film Studies. \nPlease email program manager Margo Bresnen at mbresnen@princeton.edu with any questions.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/cfs-lecture-paul-roquet/
LOCATION:100 Jones Hall
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